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  • The Germans chased down the train, searched the baggage, repatriated the glasses, and sent the Americans on to Berlin.†  (source)
  • Among those assembled were two French journalists, a Swiss diplomat, three Uzbek fur traders, a representative of the Roman Catholic Church, and a repatriated opera tenor with his family of five.†  (source)
  • In the evenings she reads while Etienne makes phone calls, petitions repatriation authorities, and writes letters.†  (source)
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  • The National Homelands and the Jewish boat-person plans were both his, as was the idea of privatizing the Jewish repatriation scheme, with the result that more than one boatload of Jews was simply dumped into the Atlantic, to maximize profits.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • Rath served a year in prison under Malaysia's tough anti-immigrant laws, and then she was supposed to be repatriated.†  (source)
  • For decades, Rwanda's governments had refused to repatriate those refugees, and like most countries where exiles tried to make new homes, Uganda didn't want them either.†  (source)
  • The ship of the voluntary repatriates was SS Marine Angel.†  (source)
  • In Deo's view, the critique contained far too little appreciation for the government's accomplishments — rebuilding institutions virtually from scratch, repatriating about two million refugees, providing security for a traumatized population in the face of persistent armed attacks from genocidal forces in exile.†  (source)
  • When the day of my repatriation finally came, I packed my few belongings in a plastic bag.†  (source)
  • Once the Russians are defeated,' he went on, you will be repatriated through Switzerland.†  (source)
  • He knew the U.S. State Department had internalregulations about the forcible repatriation of foreign nationals, particularly when it came to communist countries.†  (source)
  • With one successfully repatriated daughter, Papi might yank us all out of college and send us back.†  (source)
  • We turned them over to the Glatun for repatriation.†  (source)
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